The Oxford Handbook of Land Politics

Saturnino M. Borras, Jennifer C. Franco (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

904 Seiten

2025
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-761864-6 (ISBN)

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The Oxford Handbook of Land Politics brings together key theoretical perspectives on the politics of land, as well as strategic thematic studies on land and social life, namely, food politics, climate change, labor regimes, nation-states and citizenship, and geopolitics. The contributors to this volume address the basic but complex questions of who gets to have access to land, why, how, what kind of land and how much, where and for how long, for what purposes, and with what implications as to who wins and who loses? These questions are grounded in social relations that are in turn rooted in class and other social group formations that are enacted within the inseparable spheres of state and society. Fundamental to this collection is its treatment of land in the context of production and social reproduction, where social reproduction is interpreted in a broad sense to include socio-ecological, socio-cultural, and socio-political reproduction. The definition of land used in this Handbook encompasses soil, farmland, grazing land, home lots, landscapes, socio-agroecological zones, territory, and homeland. Individually and together, the chapters show that making sense of the dynamics of global social life requires a fundamental understanding of the politics of land, and a grasp of land politics requires a comprehension of broader social life. For instance, land politics plays a key role in causing climate change, and at the same time it is centrally located in the competing solutions to the climate crisis. Understanding climate change politics necessarily requires a deep grasp of land politics. All contributing authors are critical of capitalism, and of theories that justify and celebrate it. While most contributions focus on dynamics of social change in and in relation to the rural world, these are cast in the context of rural-urban, agriculture-industry, national-global continuums. The Handbook is organically embedded in several disciplines and fields of study: political economy, political ecology, sociology, political science, economics, anthropology, legal studies, development studies, anthropology, environmental studies, and social movements. It is a critical resource for scholars and students who seek to understand the complex interactions between these various disciplines and land politics.

Saturnino M. Borras Jr. is Professor of Agrarian Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR). He is a member of the distinguished Erasmus Professor Program at EUR, Distinguished Professor at China Agricultural University in Beijing, and an associate of the Transnational Institute (TNI). He was Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Peasant Studies for 15 years, until 2023. He coordinates the international network Initiatives in Critical Agrarian Studies (ICAS), and is a co-editor of its small books series in peasant studies and agrarian change. Jennifer C. Franco is a researcher at the Transnational Institute (TNI), especially in the Agrarian and Environmental Justice Program and the Myanmar-In-Focus Program. She is Adjunct Professor at the College of Humanities and Development Studies (COHD) of China Agricultural University in Beijing. She does extensive work on land issues using a scholar-activist method of work both in research and social justice advocacy work.

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List of Contributors

Foreword
Ian Scoones

Land and Social Life
Saturnino M. Borras Jr. and Jennifer C. Franco

1. Marxism(s) and the Politics of Land
Henry Bernstein

2. Land in World-Ecology Perspectives
Raj Patel

3. Tracing the Land in Dependency and World-Systems Theories
Max Ajl

4. Land in the Chayanovian Tradition
Jan Douwe van der Ploeg

5. Land and Ecosocialism: In Defense of the Commons
Hannah Holleman

6. Land in the Anarchist Tradition
Andrej Grubacic, Julien-François Gerber, and Andro Rilovic

7. Land from Poststructuralist/Postdevelopment Perspectives
Laura Gutierrez-Escobar

8. Land in Food Regimes
Philip McMichael

9. A Political Ecology of Financialization and Farmland Control
S. Ryan Isakson

10. The politics of land in a digital world
Alistair Fraser

11. Deep Explanation of Climate-Related Crises: Access Failure
Jesse Ribot

12. Agrarian Justice and Environmental Justice
Joan Martinez-Alier

13. Socioecological Relations in Land Politics: An Assemblage Perspective
Marvin Joseph F. Montefrio

14. Land, Industrial Livestock, and Interspecies Relations: The Pursuit of Scale and the Deceits of Productivity
Tony Weis

15. Land and Agroecology: Interpenetrating Theses
John Vandermeer and Ivette Perfecto

16. Beyond Land as Property: A Feminist Perspective
Diana Ojeda

17. Land, Social Reproduction, and Agrarian Change
Ben Cousins

18. Land Alienation, Proletarianization, and Changing Labor Market Regimes in Southern Africa
Walter Chambati

19. Land Politics and Human Mobilities: Using the Land-Mobility Nexus as an Analytical Lens
Kei Otsuki and Annelies Zoomers

20. Land for Livelihoods: Urban Agriculture and the Agrarian Question in the 21st Century
Ricardo Jacobs

21. Contract Farming, Agribusiness, and Land in Africa: Empowering Farmers or Appropriating Resources and Value?
Kojo S. Amanor

22. Public Authority, Property, and Citizenship: What We Talk about When We Talk about Land
Christian Lund

23. Land-Making as State-Making
Nikita Sud

24. State, Land, and Citizenship
Andrew Ofstehage and Wendy Wolford

25. Land in Violent Conflict Studies
Jacobo Grajales and Jean-Pierre Chauveau

26. Struggles over Land under Customary Tenure in Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa
Pauline E. Peters

27. Tourism Troubles: The Intimate and Embodied Geographies of Land Grabbing in Panama
Sharlene Mollett

28. Ethnic Politics and Land Grabbing
Tsegaye Moreda

29. Ethnic Politics and Land
Nguyet Bao Dang, Doi Ra, Lorenza Arango, Moges Belay, Sai Sam Kham, and Zeynep Ceren Eren Benlisoy

30. Land and National Development Strategies in the Cold War Era
Cristóbal Kay

31. Land and Geopolitics
Michael Dwyer

32. Land Institutions and Agricultural Modernization in China
Jingzhong Ye

33. China and Global Land Use Change
Yunan Xu and Saturnino M. Borras Jr.

34. Conservation, Land Dispossession, and Resistance in Africa
Connor Cavanagh and Tor A. Benjaminsen

35. The Politics of Resistance to Land Alienation
Shapan Adnan

36. Land Is a Human Right
Priscilla Claeys, Lorenzo Cotula, Jérémie Gilbert, Christophe Golay, Miloon Kothari, and Veronica Torres-Marenco

37. Land Struggles and Working People
Jennifer C. Franco and Saturnino M. Borras Jr.

Erscheinungsdatum	13.09.2025
Reihe/Serie	Oxford Handbooks
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	180 x 244 mm
Gewicht	1656 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	0-19-761864-2 / 0197618642
ISBN-13	978-0-19-761864-6 / 9780197618646
Zustand	Neuware